Past Exhibitions | Smithsonian Institution

Visit some 40 scrolls and album leaves, dating from the 14th to the 19th centuries. Approximately one-half of the paintings are on exhibit for the first time.

March 18, 1983 – September 18, 1983

Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

Building Brooklyn Bridge: The Design & Construction, 1867-1883

See more than 300 objects, including original drawings of design and construction, models, artifacts, photographs, and representations of the bridge.

May 4, 1983 – September 14, 1983

American History Museum

Charles Bremner Hogg Jackson

Visit highlights from the diverse and numerous objects in the estate of C. Bremner Hogg Jackson, a leading collector.

June 24, 1983 – September 12, 1983

American History Museum

Gifts of Glass, 1885-1920

Take in a special exhibit of some 75 pieces of turn-of-the century glass donated to the Smithsonian Institution by manufacturers of that era.

June 1, 1982 – September 5, 1983

American History Museum

Heritage of Islam (Muslim Treasures)

Celebrate the 14th centennial of Islam, its history and its legacy to the Western world through 250 objects assembled from museums and private collections of 25 countries.

June 2, 1983 – September 5, 1983

Natural History Museum

Mr. Sully, Portrait Painter: Works of Thomas Sully (1783-1872)

Visit a major exhibition that includes 81 paintings and drawings representative of the major phases of Sully's seven decades as a working artist: a sampling of his early miniatures; masterpieces of his maturity; and paintings after photographs done at the close of his career.

June 3, 1983 – September 5, 1983

Portrait Gallery

Silk Screen Mandalas by Kamal Boullata

View 12 contemporary artworks in the Islamic visual tradition. The artist, Kamal Boullata, uses geometric patterns created by the repetition of certain words to re-create Arabic mandalas (ideograms).

June 2, 1983 – September 5, 1983

Natural History Museum

Our Nation's Heritage

The 1983 recipients of National Heritage Fellowships include 9 musicians and 7 master craftspeople.

June 23, 1983 – September 5, 1983

American History Museum

Charles Hawthorne: The Late Watercolors

Verging on the abstract, these 64 watercolors represent an almost unknown aspect of the work of Hawthorne (1872-1930), a portraitist and a landscapist closely associated with the Provincetown (Mass.) artists' colony.

April 15, 1983 – September 5, 1983

American Art Museum

The Artist and the Space Shuttle

Witness the artist's take on the development of the Space Shuttle since early tests in 1977 to the first launch in 1981.

December 1, 1982 – September 5, 1983

Air and Space Museum

March on Washington

Commerate the twentieth anniversary of the March on Washington, August 28, 1963, through the artifacts in this exhibit.

August 20, 1983 – September 5, 1983

American History Museum

Urban Documents: 20th-Century American Prints

See 75 architectural prints by 35 artists that represent a range of perception and scope.

May 10, 1983 – September 4, 1983

Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

The Woodworker

See 27 tools loaned by members of the Early American Industries Association.

July 9, 1983 – September 1, 1983

American History Museum

The Past in Your Future: Changing Perspectives on the 18th Century

This 9-minute narrated video program explains Americans' changing perspectives on the presentation of history, and specifically explains changes to the "Hall of Everyday Life in the American Past."

January 1, 1983 – August 31, 1983

American History Museum

Trade Literature

See catalogs from the clothing business and allied industries, the focal point of an exhibition on preservation and conservation of trade literature.

May 7, 1982 – August 29, 1983

American History Museum

The Art of Louis Paul Jonas

View 75 wildlife miniatures by Jonas (1894-1971), who was one of the nation's foremost animal sculptors and taxidermists.

July 2, 1983 – August 28, 1983

Natural History Museum

Portraits in Black: Outstanding Americans of Negro Origin

In the 1940s, the Harmon Foundation commissioned portraits of eminent black Americans to recognize their accomplishments as well as to refute racism.

April 17, 1983 – August 21, 1983

Anacostia Community Museum

Portraits from the New Deal

See portraits of prominent personalities involved in Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal that focus on the years 1933 to 1936.

March 4, 1983 – August 21, 1983

Portrait Gallery

Friedel Dzubas

The first complete Dzubas retrospective comprises 45 works, including his early "calligraphic" work of 1949; all-black canvases; and bold monumental color abstractions of recent years.

June 16, 1983 – August 14, 1983

Hirshhorn Museum